With the help of a law firm, a Staten Island mother has received a new memorial flag in honor of her son, an Air Force service member who died in 1994, to replace one that was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a policy of providing only one flag per deceased service member, but Asoka Kumarihamy already had received a flag from a Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and the New York Legal Assistance Group interceded with the veterans affair department to acquire another one.
